Sunday, December 16, 2012

Guest Post: Photographing Your Family- Part 5

Background

Background is important.
You can see we are in a garage and it looks like my subject has horns. Be aware
of the background. You don’t want things growing out of the head.

You can take care of
unsightly backgrounds in two ways. One is simply to zoom in close so that you
can’t see it. The other is to move your subject or yourself so that the items
in the background aren’t becoming a part of your picture.

There are times when
background is important to have in your picture.I love this picture of my daughter but I’m never going to be
able to use it except to show it as a bad example. We are at the pumpkin patch
and she is showing me the corn maze. I know that but no one else does. I should
have included the background to tell her story.

Because I included the
background here you know, without knowing me, what we’re doing in this room and
what is happening.

In this photo you can’t
tell we’re at the Seahawks Stadium in Seattle. You just wonder why that giant
lady is about to eat that nose-picking man.